Things To Do Today

ShopCraft is excited to present local artist, Alyssa Capri’s mini-series, love and attachment. Opening on July 20th, 2017 at 6pm – the exhibition will run through August 20th.

Mixed media artist Alyssa Capri touches beautifully on the human experience – exploring love and attachment in the various types of relationships we create both internally and externally.  

From day to day attachments and affections; formed with strangers, occasional acquaintances, friends, relatives, and lovers we all experience them in our own way. Sometimes out of love and sometimes out of habit, our connections can be purely emotional, physical, or varying degrees of both. Using threads as a representation for connection and attachment, Alyssa explores how each presents outwardly, how the internal connects to the external, and how different relationships attach to you in distinctive ways.  

She regularly explores the human experience in her work, in particular love, growth, loss, and relationships, including the one we have with ourselves.

We will have special guest readers, visits with animal ambassadors, arts and crafts and a special treat from Perry’s ice cream.

Great classic rock and roll from the 60’s, 70’s, and beyond will be provided by Rio Bravo! Featuring Tonawanda ex-pat Tom Geraci from such classic acts in WNY as The Beez, Crossroads and Dobie Royal.

Join us on the party patio at 4:00 pm for live music by Ed Wyner, a Buffalo, NY-based singer, guitarist, bassist, and harmonica player. Ed is a multiple-winner of the Western New York People’s Choice Music Awards.

Explore the full range of motion of the spine; flexion, extension, lateral flexion and rotation. The sequence combines inversion, distraction and rotation of the spine that, when done regularly, can take years off the age of the spine.

Herbal Answers and Host Defense Demos

50 in 50 is the culmination of the Burchfield Penney’s 50th anniversary.

Pure Ink Poetry

With unique blend of Pop, Rock, Soul, Metal & Dance, BREAKERBOX powerfully fills the void left in between Pop artists like Sia & Katy Perry and Rock acts like Pretty Wreckless & Halestorm.

Join us for an evening of sailing on the beautiful Lake Erie and the music of the Grateful Dead by Sonic Garden Acoustic Trio. Jimmy John will be joining Dan and Kevin for a sunset sail with some of your favorite Dead tunes.

Ed is a multiple-winner of the Western New York People’s Choice Music Awards.

Capriccio Chamber Orchestra “Baroque in the Woods”

Grab your passport, because we’re going to celebrate National Ice Cream Month (that’s July!) the Yelp way – with a fantastic, cross-city adventure! You gotta try them all!

The second half will be an outdoor workshop centered around two parts: the hand-dyeing techniques of Shibori and dyeing with Indigo in its natural state.

Guitarist Jamie Holka is back for some Sunday afternoon tunes!

We’ll be starting the dying day off with learning the art of Batik. A technique in which wax is used as a resist to create a custom design for fabric!

Join us for a kayak tour of the Buffalo River and its grain elevators in partnership with Elevator Alley Kayak, who will provide the kayaks for this urban adventure tour.

Walk streets named after early land owners and influential citizens. Pass late 19th- century and early 20th-century homes with interesting architecture, and learn a little about their former residents.

Little Summer Street has the most picturesque cottages in the city. Built in the 1870s by English immigrants, the charming cottages of Little Summer Street create a neighborhood truly unique in Buffalo.

This waterfront walking tour will explore some of the oldest neighborhoods of Buffalo, many of which have gone through numerous transitions and are in the midst of yet another change as the city returns its focus to the water.

These environmental projects have taken place with Buffalo’s historic grain elevators in the background. This tour will reveal the regeneration of this former industrial powerhouse.

On this guided walk around the grounds of Silo City, you will enter the ground floor work areas of a flour mill, two grain elevators, and a malthouse. You will also see new projects including “Elevator B.”

Expect the new wave and punk classics from Talking Heads, Blondie, the Smiths and New Order.

RESONANCE ~ A solo art exhibit by Kathleen Sherin

DeeAnn DiMeo EP Release

BreakAway

Gain the skills you’ll need to light, shoot, and record your own films, documentaries, interviews, and advertisements.

4 mile or 9.7 mile hard core trail runs on the Holiday Valley and nearby wooded winding trails.

Take in the view and enjoy Live Acoustic Music every Sunday at The Beer Garden at The Dish!

Take a trip through time to learn all the old stories and history and go behind-the-scenes at the Central Terminal.

Garden Walk 2017

Burchfield’s Enchanted Forest

Mama Earth’s Kitchen Band

R’m Aharoni is an interdisciplinary artist.

Place Relations is a new programming initiative that will take shape as an ongoing exhibition and performance series exploring notions of cultural identity from a variety of places around the world.

The project is based on the collaborative book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans.

Docent-led tours of the Burchfield Penney

Get hands-on and meet a sea star, crab, lobster, and other marine invertebrates at our touch tank.

You’ll learn how our marine mammal staff works with and trains our animals, how many tons of food it takes to feed our animals and get premium, reserved seating for that afternoon’s sea lion show.

This session gives you a look at the care and training of all our marine mammals and an opportunity to touch, feed and play with one of our seals.

Humboldt Penguin Encounter

Detroit’s Negative Approach, along with Ohio’s Necros, were the undisputed champs of Midwestern hardcore in the early to mid-’80s.

This is a free family event and is open to boys and girls of all ages. Come and enjoy the Magic of Nature! Many activities in Burchfield Park and arts & craft activities – make your own magic wand and build a fairy house too! Musical guest: Mama Earth’s Kitchen Band.

The Cheektowaga Summer Guitar show and Swap is a venue for musical equipment vendors to sell, trade, or barter their new or used equipment.

Thunder at the Outer Harbor is a one of a kind event, featuring fly by heats of vintage hydroplanes, jersey speed skiffs, classic wooden boats and offshore powerboats.

Sanborn-Lewiston Farm Museum Festival

The Ken-Ton Garden Tour is one of the most anticipated events of the summer in the Ken-Ton community.

Canal Fest provides 8 days of entertainment for local citizens and visitors from throughout Western New York and farther. Attendance is estimated anywhere from 200,000 – 250,000 for the 8 day run.

A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Don Rice became a professional musician at the age of 14, and traveled with Midwest territory bands until entering college, where he headed campus jazz groups at the University of Nebraska.

CHARLIE COUGHLIN (THE BROTHERS BLUE)

Blues and other classics banged out on a bar room piano.

Buffalo’s West Side was once a hotbed of mob activity and government surveillance as law enforcement tried to make a dent in the criminal underworld, often with little success.

Brunch featuring Marty Peters (Buffalo Music Hall of Famer)

This tour is an experience unlike any other tour in the world!

Sparklebomb / Compactor / Stclvr / Plague Mother / GC Slagle

The African American Cultural Center’s Jumpin’ Jambalaya Summer Program keeps children creatively entertained, culturally enlightened and educationally motivated during the summer months.

Polaris, King Dame, BossNardoBaby, Rae Rose, The J.N.C., Telly Da Don, Jamal Gasol, ThatBoyAntBanks, & D Lew
* DJ NiTELiTE on the decks // * Hosted by: YA BOY TWAN

Come visit our farmers for an amazing variety of fruits and vegetables.

Guests will enjoy 5 tastes of NYBP beers in a souvenir “Can style” logo tasting glass that you can sip during the tour, and an additional fifth 5 oz. sample at the end.

Exciting entertainment and activities for all ages include live wildlife presentations, bird of prey flight demonstrations, medieval reenactments, educational exhibits, food, music, art, and much more!

Wild Safari Tours! Escape to The Wild!

Rainbows of color will be incorporated into this summer exhibit of thousands of coleus and so much color!

Western New York’s premiere Acoustic/Rock Band

Fiddler in the Park with Ilya Kaler

“We are the elders of our minds,” sings Sean Rowe on “Gas Station Rose,” the track that ushers in his fourth album, New Lore, with plaintive plucks of guitar and steady drips of piano that fall in like rain.

The Grammy Award-winning band behind the great hits Bamboléo, Samba Samba, Volaré and Caramelo celebrate over 25 years of flamenco, salsa and pop fusion perfection with booming Spanish vocals.

We will be celebrating 3 days of music, ethnic food, and dancing; a celebration of community and culture, with activities for the entire family; With Live Performances

A small exhibition of work by artists from around the globe celebrates their contributions to our cultural heritage.

Come check out Rusty Nickel Brewing Co.’s Acoustic Sundays, every week from 5-8. Whether you sing, or play the guitar, the stage is ready for you.

No matter what story your young star of tomorrow wants to tell, WE HELP THEM TELL IT. Summer Institute students are the WRITERS – the DIRECTORS – and the STARS.

Learn the Latin Style, partner work, technique, smooth patterns, shines (footwork), musicality, style and more. No partner necessary, we rotate partners during the class.

Over 40 drawings and paintings laid the groundwork in preparation for this expansive work. Niagara, Psalms 84:11 endeavors to share the beauty of one of the great natural wonders and evoke awareness and concern for the fragility of our natural environment.

Can a Cockney man give up his old life – and love! – to join the upper class? The sparkling and fun British hit musical.

In Wright, Roycroft, Stickley, and Rohlfs: Defining the Buffalo School Arts & Crafts Aesthetic, June 9 – November 26, 2017 the exhibition will explore and examine works from three of the leading Arts & Crafts studios — those of Charles Rohlfs, Gustav Stickley and The Roycrofters — and the work of groundbreaking architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and how geography and zeitgeist influenced their collective imagination.

Victor Trabucco is considered one of the finest glass artists in the world.

Artpark Theater Academy: A Broadway Jr. Program

Of Their Time primarily features primarily works from the Castellani Art Museum’s permanent collection.

Fine Adult Dance Music from 30’s 40’s Big Band, 50’s & 60’s, 70’s, Ballroom, Latin, Jitterbug, Disco, Swing, Waltz, Polkas, Rock & Roll, Todays Pop, Specialty songs and more.

Brunch (n): the socially acceptable excuse to drink before noon! Join us for Brunch & $2 mimosas every Saturday/Sunday from 10am-3pm!